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Thena,
Hanna's projected course as of right now has it smacking northern Florida,  
Georgia and the Carolina's. Bring it on I say. We need the rain. Sorry about 
all  the destruction that comes with it, but I will take the rain from wherever 
it  might come.
We had a good soaking rain again last night. Another inch and a half in the  
gauge this morning. This is good.

Rummy

In a message dated 8/29/2008 10:29:21 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
thenacarville at bellsouth.net writes:

Outages  were "speckled" throughout the area...I am in BR now and the place
up here  had electricity two hours AFTER my house in LaPlace got power (an
hour  closer to the eye)...it was a couple of days for me but some never  lost
power in both locations...I know everyone is going crazy, but you  won't know
till Sunday if you will have a thunderstorm or a hurricane where  you
are...haven't looked at just how wide the eye of this one is but that  is
where the punch is...everything else is just varying degrees  of
"windy"...and there is an upper level high in our future that might  just
give it a nudge left...from the last projected path, it looks like we  will
get the northeast quadrant of the storm and that is where the  tornadoes
are...don't like that but they didn't ask me what part of the  storm I
wanted...haven't looked at the surge estimates...once it gets close  to real
land, it drops almost immediately at least one category...most  times all the
way down to a "depression" and we are about 90 miles  inland...now, my guess
is you should be okay...doesn't look like you will  be getting much of this
one...I doubt I will even move my flower pots at  this point and I will be 2
hours closer to it than you...besides, we have a  football game to think
about over here...important stuff...most important  thing for you to watch is
the surge and how far it extends to the  east...and maybe Hanna next week...
Thena

-----Original  Message-----
From:  rhodes22-list-bounces at rhodes22.org
[mailto:rhodes22-list-bounces at rhodes22.org]  On Behalf Of Brad Haslett
Sent: Friday, August 29, 2008 8:40 AM
To: The  Rhodes 22 Email List
Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] Hurricane Gustav - Hey  Ben!

Ben & Thena,

Did the lights stay on for you guys during  Katrina?  How far north did the
power outages go?  I'm debating  whether to leave Sunday and ride out Gustav
with my brother (but putting  the truck in harms way) and then go to work
shuttling fuel or wait until it  passes and take a chance on US 49 not being
open. Katrina knocked out power  as far as an hour north of our location so
the shuttle runs could get  pretty long. The picture should be a lot clearer
in a couple of days,  depending on what happens after Gustav gets in the
Gulf.  So far, it  ain't lookin' pretty.

My student yesterday is the CO of an Air Force  Reserve unit in Texas and
they're going on full alert starting this weekend  for the same mission they
did during Katrina, staff Ft. Chaffee, Arkansas  for refugees.  During a
break in the Sesame Street show last night I  spoke with a deputy sheriff who
is in the MS National Guard and they're  spooling-up for deployment to the MS
Gulf, same as Katrina. The info I'd  really like to have is WalMart's weather
prediction and their supply-chain  logistics contingency plan - they're
probably the most sophisticated at  this.

This will be interesting! The latest NOAA forecast is predicting  landfall on
the western coast of LA which would put the outer bands in  roughly the same
spot as Katrina for NOLA. We'll see soon  enough!

Brad

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